DevOps vs. SRE: What's the difference? 

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Not only is it wrong, is counter intuitive to break silo. What people sometimes miss is that 99% of the companies are NOT unicorns, they dont run multi-million dollars datacenters all over the globe. But those unicorns companies that do, they need to look cool and shiney and attract the best skilled employees for years to come to take care of those datacenters. So what do they do ? They invent new TLD's, wrote books, essays, conventions. create a hype. When basically its the same old gig of Operations people just slightly smarter as we are dealing with the cloud after all. But hey, its a new title, new budgets. Why would they care that in 99% of the companes this creates a secondary IT organization or a shadow IT ? Those in ops that have not been able to catcup, will eventually be out of the job market. Those that haven't adjusted fast enough will always stay behind when new technology is introduced. Been like these from the dawn of mankind. Not to mention it creates an eco system of companies selling services,, training, tools. Its like a prophecy that fulfils itself.

I agree that this is very wrong. Why is he talking about DevOps as if it were development? Makes no sense to me and I've been in software for 15 years. Dev is dev. This is the team that architects your application and writes your software. DevOps is the team that focuses on the deployment process, optimizing developer workflow, configuring dev environments to ensure new devs can be onboarded easily with their own workspaces, etc. SRE contributes to the design of the system (as opposed to the software itself) for performance and scalability, makes sure your site/application doesn't go down, monitors traffic and activity, ensures redundancy and reliability, etc. At least that's how I see it.

@@bmfitzgerald3 , I second that.

@@bmfitzgerald3 Agreed, except that in teams without dedicated SRE, DevOps would handle those SRE tasks.

@@bmfitzgerald3 I felt the same watching the video.

Actually they are right-handed and the video seems to be mirrored for us to see the writing correctly.

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No, they use a clever gadget called a light board and the image is flipped (he isn't left handed)